Fairly straightforward in the beginning and then turned south in the end. More information is below. I got invited to speak with the Head of Engineering via LinkedIn. It seemed like a great conversation, and I proceeded to do the take-home. The take-home took about 6 hours to complete as there were specific tools I'd instead use for their requirements. After submitting the take-home, I interviewed with one of their UI engineers. This was when things made an odd turn. It was a weird conversation. He said the app worked perfectly, with tests passing great. But, he said he looking for a particular technology/pattern (when the instructions were to use anything) in the app. He also mentioned [insert widely-used state management tool] had no place in a modern application, which seemed bizarre as his preference was to use none. It seemed to me that the interviewer was a little junior to be interviewing Lead candidates. I doubt they knew what they were looking for. That aside, they said he would be reaching out in a few days. That turned into a week. Then a couple of weeks. Then a month. I kept following up but was ghosted—poor candidate experience with no feedback after spending a weekend working on their take-home. I don't recommend this place.
